by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 16, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis seems to imply that there is nothing good that can come from humans. Is this so? Now consider that first question in light of humans who have been regenerated by baptism. Can nothing good come from humanity still? If we are “utterly useless”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 14, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Uncategorized
Lift High the Cross This week’s reflection is written byMr. Joseph McDaniel, OSFS Just over a week from now, on September the 14th, the Church will celebrate a most peculiar feast: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. If the title of this feast doesn’t take each of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 9, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Why does charity nourish all other virtues? Charity has the “quality of perfecting the perfections which it meets with, it more greatly perfects where it finds greater perfection.” Discuss what St. Francis means by this. St. Francis says that small acts...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 2, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Do you find the analogy of the army general helpful as an explanation for giving God all glory while still recognizing our merits? What is the relationship between faith, hope, and love? Does one precede the others? Is there a paradox here? What is the distinction...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 2, 2019 | Guard of Honor, Monthly Mystic, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
The stream adheres to the source from which it drifts, the flower to the stem that supports it, the flame of the hearth that is consumed. To separate the stream from the spring, it dries up. Cut the flower from the stem, it fades. Remove the flame from the hearth, it...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 26, 2019 | Events, Guard of Honor, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A Jubilee Year for the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary has been announced as opening October 16 2019 and ending October 17, 2020! This is the year we celebrate the centenary of the canonization of Saint Margaret Mary, the Apostle of Jesus’ Sacred Heart. On...